If you shopped downtown this holiday season, you might wonder about the group of Santa hat-clad children (and the occasional adult) who are looking so eagerly into car windows. Before you get up in ...

For 21 years, G&C Auto Body has been sending out its own little civic holiday presents in the weeks before Christmas. Armed with $900 worth of coins each day, Meter Beaters helped downtown shoppers ...

Across from the College of Charleston library, Mike McCann opens the gray housing of a parking meter and sticks a small screwdriver into a slot. "Bingo," he says, fishing out a gum wrapper. McCann has ...

Finding a parking spot with a broken meter may be the New York equivalent of hitting the jackpot — but, thanks to a new iPhone application, everyone can now be a winner. The free app, called NYC ...

For the second straight year, Jim Corliss has won the city’s batch of foreign coins that scofflaws slip into parking meters. The 60-year-old Massachusetts man was the highest bidder on the 500 pounds ...